In the years since she entered the Pasteur Institute in 1992, Charpentier had worked in ten institutions in seven cities in five countries. Her nomadic life reflected the fact, and reinforced the fact, that she resisted bonds. With no spouse or family, she sought out changing environments and adapted to them without any inhibiting personal ties. “I enjoy the freedom of being on my own, of not depending on partnership,” she says. She hated the phrase “work-life balance” because it implied that work competes with life. Her work in the lab and her “passion for science,” she says, brought her a
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Wow I really respect that.
